The National Book Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation continue the inaugural year of Science + Literature with free public programs highlighting each of the selected titles: The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández, The Radiant Lives of Animals by Linda Hogan, and In the Field by Rachel Pastan. The programming includes in-person events at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, NY featuring Daisy Hernández and Dr. Jessica L. Ware, and the Mechanics’ Hall in Portland, ME featuring Rachel Pastan and Weike Wang, and a virtual event presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures featuring Linda Hogan and Rena Priest.
In the Field by Rachel Pastan tells the story of a female geneticist—an outsider in her pursuits, and sexuality—in the mid-twentieth century. The novel is an inaugural selection of the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature program, inspired by the life of Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock.
Join Rachel Pastan in conversation with author and 5 Under 35 honoree Weike Wang (Chemistry; Joan Is Okay) on the intersection of science and literature.
Presented in partnership with the Mechanics’ Hall, and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Join Daisy Hernández and Dr. Jessica L. Ware, the American Museum of Natural History’s Entomology Curator, for a conversation on the personal and political of science research, and access.
Presented in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History, and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
